{"product_id":"the-political-vocation-of-philosophy-hardback-9781509539413","title":"The Political Vocation of Philosophy (Hardback) 9781509539413","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Political Vocation of Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonatella Di Cesare (Author), David Broder (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509539413, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e146 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.1 x 14.5 x 2 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Di Cesare’s limpid meditations on the tormented relations between thought and power make a passionate case for philosophy as a liminal practice looking both ways across the limits of the political.  Her figure of the philosopher as the foreigner, refugee and outsider attentive to the calls of the other and speaking in the name of an anarchic justice proposes no less than a renewal of the political vocation of philosophy for the twenty-first century.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Caygill, Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is time for philosophy to return to the city. In today’s crisis-ridden world of globalised capitalism, increasingly closed in on itself, it may seem harder than ever to think of ways out. Philosophy runs the risk of becoming the handmaiden of science and of a hollowed-out democracy. Donatella Di Cesare calls on philosophy instead to return to the political fray and to the city, the global \u003ci\u003epólis\u003c\/i\u003e, from which it was banished after the death of Socrates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggesting a radical existentialism and a new anarchism, Di Cesare shows that Western philosophy has been characterised by a political vocation ever since its origins in ancient Greece, and argues that the separation of philosophy from its political roots robs it of its most valuable and enlightening potential. But critique and dissent are no longer enough. Mindful of a defeated exile and an inner emigration, philosophers should return to politics and forge an alliance with the poor and the downtrodden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis passionate defence of the political relevance of philosophy and its radical potential in our globalised world will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to a wide general readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The saturated Immanence of the World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Heraclitus, wakefulness and the original communism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The narcosis of light: on the night of capital\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The polis: a calling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Wonder – a troubled passion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Between heavens and abysses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Socrates’s atopia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. A political death\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Plato – when philosophy headed into exile within the city\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Migrants of thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. ‘What is philosophy?’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Radical questions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The out-of-place of metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Dissent and critique\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The twentieth century: breaks and traumas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. After Heidegger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Against negotiators and normative philosophers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Ancilla democratiae: a dejected return\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The poetry of clarity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.  Potent prophesies of the leap: Marx and Kierkegaard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The ecstasy of existence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. For an exophilia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The philosophy of awakening\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Fallen angels and rag-pickers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Anarchist postscript\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441802506520,"sku":"9781509539413","price":40.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509539413.jpg?v=1785026115","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-political-vocation-of-philosophy-hardback-9781509539413","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}